Information about the composer of this mass

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I have a piece of music for a Mass, whose composer is known as “Leigrer” but I couldn’t find any useful information about the composer. I guess that the name is wrong.

You can find easily lots of youtube videos by searching “Leigrer”. (Most of them are performed by Korean choir)
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Does anyone know who is the composer?
 
You may want to contact your Diocese, find out a contact at the nearest Korean Catholic Community.
 
Thank you for your reply.

I’m Korean and I have already contacted several people in our community.
But no one knows about the composer “Leigrer”. It is like a folklore.

By the way, why can’t I upload a picture or a link?

I wish I could upload music or video links.
 
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Because you’re a newcomer to CAF. After a short waiting period, maybe ten or twenty posts, you’ll be able to post links to anything you like.

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Just noticed @Beryllos already gave you a much fuller answer to your question!

On the subject of Leigrer – whether or not that is the name of a composer, it seems to be something to do very specifically with Korea.

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I searched but didn’t find anything apart from a few YouTube videos from Korea. The style of the music seems contemporary. The rhythms and melodies seem a little unusual, or I should say they are different from the church music I usually hear, so I was wondering if they were composed by someone in Korea. @anbyhee, can you discern any cultural style in this music? To your ear, does it sound like popular music from Korea, or does it sound like it is from outside of Korea?
 
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@anbyhee, can you discern any cultural style in this music? To your ear, does it sound like popular music from Korea, or does it sound like it is from outside of Korea?
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No, I can’t find any cultural style in this music. I think that it is quite far from K-pop. 🙂

For your information, some people says that this mass had been sung right after Korean war, which was in early 1950’s, but source is unclear.
 
Could “Leigrer” possibly be a European (German?) name that was transliterated phonetically into Korean, and then transliterated back again, with one or more errors creeping in? Just the other day I saw a case like that in a book by an Israeli author, translated from Hebrew into English, where a Brazilian name had become distorted in that way.
 
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I completely agree with you. The problem is that I can hardly guess the original name.😭
 
Is it true that Korean has only a single letter for both R and L?

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Yes, and it is also difficult to distinguish between “b” and “v”, or “f” and “p” in Korean letter.

But there are five more double consonants having intermediate sounds between “b” and “p”, “g” and “k”, “d” and “t”, “j” and “ch”, and so on. There are a lot of vowels (10 basics + 11 compounds = 21 total).

It’s quite different from European language family, isn’t it?
This is why we usually make mistakes in translation, especially names.
 
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No, I can’t find any cultural style in this music.
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That’s interesting. To my Western ears, and I couldn’t p(name removed by moderator)oint exactly why, what I found on Youtube has a “Korean feel” (more exactly a “Western tradition reinterpreted for Korean worship” feel). That is to say, it sounds like many works I hear interpreted by church choirs when I’m in Korea, and I don’t hear here in Europe.

But that’s most definitely not Reger’s style.
 
Just listened to it. It almost sounds like a military march music or a patriotic hymn 🙃
 
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Probably you’re right. I think that it’s been sung in Korea for a long time, and there are several arrangements. I’m not sure which is original, and even whether there is an original version or not.
 
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